> Liza Featherstone wrote:
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>> it seems asinine in the extreme to assume
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> it seems naive in the extreme to deprecate the possibility
What's being deprecated is not the possibility but the assumption, and I'm good with that. Just because something makes sense or fits theory doesn't mean it's true. (It might make it a politically expedient to say, but that's another story.)
All the best,
John A